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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL L. MANSFELD, OF BRIGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS ASSIGNOR TO GRACE M.BARKER, OF PETERIBOBOUGH, NEW HAMPSHIRE cam) Application filed ma 15,

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that 1, PAUL L. MANSFIELD, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Brighton, in the county of Suffolk and State ofMassachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Card Games, of which thefollowing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, isa specification, like characters on the drawings representing likeparts.

This invention relates to game cards and particularly to a pack of cardsfor a card game comprising two or more groups all having the samenumerical values but otherwise ditferentiating each from the other, anddesirably by colors.

In order that my invention may be readily understood, I have disclosed asingle embodiment thereof in the accompanying drawings, wherein Fig. 1is a view representing the faces of each of the cards of one of thegroups;

Fig. 2 is a view indicating the faces of one card of each of the groups,and indicating differentiation therebetween; and

Figs. 3 and 4 are views respectively like Figs. 1 and 2 but showing amodification of my invention.

In the patent to George S. Parker, No. 952,939, March 22, 1910, aredisclosed special game cards by which the well known game of Rook isplayed. YVhile not in all respects limited to its use or applicationthereto, my invention is in its preferred embodiment an improvement uponthe said game.

While not limiting my invention wholly to such use, I will describe thepreferred embodiment thereof and-the best manner of playing the game asan improvement upon the game of Rook.

In the card pack I provide two or more groups of cards and desirablyemploy four cups, though less than four or more than our many beemployed under certain circumstances. Whatever the number of groups thecards of the several groups should be distinguished each from everyother in some suitable manner, but desirably by a color scheme asindicated in the said patent to Parker, No. 952,939, and also asindicated in the patent to George S. Parker, No. 1,129,423, February 23,1915.

In Fig. 2, I have indicated four groups at GAME.

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1, 2, 3, 4, said figure showing the lowest strength card of each of thegroups and indicating that the groups are difi'erentiated by a colorscheme. By the term strength as herein used I refer to the numericalorder of the card or what is ordinarily the value of a number, thistermbeing employed to avoid confusion with what I hereinafter refer to asthe value in playing or scoring the game, which latter may be differentfrom the strength of a card number. In Fig. 2 I have indicated the useof the colors, red, green, black and yellow, but it is to be understoodthat any other suitable colors may be used instead, and that ifadditional groups are employed, such other additional colors will beemployed as are desired. While my invention is not limited to adifferentiation by colors such'scheme of differentiation is best adaptedto the purposes of the game.

Aside from the color or other substitute dillerentiation, the cards ofthe several groups are desirably alike, and I will describe one group ofcards as constituting the preferred disclosure, the same being shown inFig. 1.

The number of cards in a group may be varied within the scope of myinvention, but in any case the number of cards in each group is the sameas in every other group. In the present instance, I have representedfourteen cards in a group. Each card is given a number and these numbersmay be selected in accordance with any suitable scheme. Desirably,however, a certain number of the cards are numbered in sequence as, forexample, 1 to 10 inclusive, though a smaller or a larger number of cardsmay thus be numbered sequentially or within the scope of my invention,the numbers need not be in sequence, as, for example, in the lowernumbered cards I may employ only such numerals as 2, 4, 6, 8,10, etc.Desirably, however, I do employ ten cards numbered sequentially from 1to 10, and in addition I cmploy certain other cards, which desirablyhave some definite relation to the numerical strength of one of thelower numbered cards. For example, in'addition to the cards numberedsequentially from 1 to 10, I use cards numbered 15, 20, 50 and 100, allof which are multiples of five. Of course, within the scope of myinvention still other cards may be employed or less than the fouradditional cards shown, and the increase in value may be other than thatderived from using five as a multiple.

According to the preferred manner of playing the game, only those cardswhich are either a 5 card or a multiple thereof have a value in playingthe game. Thus, according to the disclosed embodiment, the value cardsare the 5, 10, 15, 20, 50 and 100, which in the disclosed embodimenthave an aggregate value of 200. Desirably the value cards of each groupare differentiated in some other way than merely their number fromtheother cards of the group. This may be done in any suitable manner,and as one means for carrying out this feature of my invention, I haveherein represented each value card as having the figures thereon oflarger size than the figures on the remaining cards of that group, anddesirably this is true of all the groups, so that in all the groups thevalue cards are distinguished in the present instance by having thenumbers thereon larger than the numbers of the remaining cards, anddesirably the size of the numbers on the value cards of all the groupsis the same, and the size of the numbers of the non-value cards isuniformly small. My invention is not limited, however, to distinguishingthe value cards by making the figurecsi thereon larger than the figureson other car s.

in some other manner from thenon-value cards, such, for example, as somedesign that surrounds the numerals of the value cards. I have indicateda suitable design surroundingthe numbers on the value cards 5, 10, 15,20, 50 and 100. lVithin the scope of my invention, such surroundingdesigns may in all cases be the same, though within the scope of myinvention, each group may have its own particular design surrounding itsvalue numbers.

\Vhile I have indicated the numbers 10, 15, 20, 50 and 100, it will beunderstood that these numbers are representative merely, and that inaccordance with my invention, the values above the cards numberedsequentially, may be any suitable numbers having values other than thosearising from the mere superiority in magnitude in sequence. In otherwords, I may employ any suitable numbers of greater numerical strength,but not differing merely in sequence.

The pack of cards herein disclosed 'is clearly differentiated physicallyand in purpose and usage of play from the pack commonly and commerciallyknown as playing cards. The game may be played in the general mannerindicated in the said game patent to Parker No. 952,939, and it is therefore unnecessary to describe in detail the playing of the game.

The value cards may also be distinguished It will be understood thatwhatever the colors employed, I desirably make the norm her on each cardin the proper color of that group, andalso I desirably place on eachcard the name of the color printed in its own color. For example, eachcard of the red color has the color designation Red displayed in red onits face, the green card has Green, the black card has Black and theyellow card has Yellowfland so on if more than four groups of cards areprovided. Desirably also I provide a small index number preferably atone upper corner and the diagonally opposite lower corner of each cardin small type.

In Fig.3, I have indicated a modified form of the invention. Therein Iemploy the same number of cardsas in that form of my invention shown inFig. 1, but the numbers-upon the value cards, namely, 5, 10, 15, 20, 50and 100 are of thesame sizeas the numbers upon the non-value cards, anddesirably and as here shown, I employ upon the value cards, 15, 20, 50,100, the indices 11, 12, 13, 14, because said indices are employed uponcards in the said Rook game, of which the present game is an improvementand carryin forward, and which may be played in t e same general manneras the said game of Book. Instead of employing indices 11, 12, 13, 14, Imay upon the value cards, 15, 20, 50 and 100, employ the correspondingindices 15, 20, 50 and 100. i

. It will be observed that in Fig. 3, I have indicated the figures asgreen, and in F ig. 4, I have indicated four suits'as green, black,

yellow and red, but what I have said concerning the number of groups andthe colors thereof in the description of Figs. 1 and 2- may and doesclearly apply with respect to Figs. 3 and 4.

Having thus described one illustrative embodiment of my invention, Idesire it to be understood that although specific terms are employed,they are used in a generic and descriptive sense and not for purposes oflimitation, the scope of the invention being set forth in the followingclaims.

Claims- 1. A pack of cards for a game comprising two or more groups, allhaving the same numerical characters as the predominant characteristicupon the face thereof but otherwise differentiated each from every otherby means including at least a color dilferentiatiom each of the groupshaving a plurality of cards in numerical sequence, and a plurality ofadditional cards of greater numerical-strength but not sequentially arranged. A

2. A pack of cards for a card game comprising two or more groups, allhaving the same numerical characters as the predominant characteristicupon the face thereof but otherwise differentiated each from every otherby means including at least a color difi'erentiation, each of saidgroups having a series of cards sequentially related, and an additionalseries of cards each constituting a multiple of a selected number.

3. A pack of cards for a game comprising a multiplicity of cards forminga plurality of groups readily distinguishable by means including a groupcharacterizing color, each group containing like numbers of individualcards, each card bearing upon its face as its predominant characteristica numerical character formed in the color of its group and having indiagonally opposite corners an index of both its number and its group,said index including a small numeral and the name of the group colorformed in that color, ,in each group there being a series of cards thenumerical characters of which are relatively low in strength andsequentially related and a plurality of cards whose numerical charactersare relatively high in strength and are not sequentially related but arerespectively multiples of the same selectedvnumber.

4. A pack of cards for a game comprising a multiplicity of cards forminga plurality of groups readily distinguishable by means including a groupcharacterizingcolor, each group containing like numbers of individualcards, each card bearing upon its face as its predominant characteristica numerical character formed in the color of its group and having indiagonally opposite corners an index of both its number and its group,said index including a small numeral and the name of the group colorformed in that color, in each group there being a series of cards thenumerical characters of which are relatively low in strength andsequentially re lated and a. plurality of cards whose numericalcharacters are relatively high in strength and are not sequentiallyrelated but are respectively multiples of the same selected number, thenumerical indices of said plurality of high strength cards differing instrength from the numerical characters thereof and constituting acontinuation of the sequence of and increasing in the same sequence asthe numerical characters of the each of said low strength cards and inthe order of the increasing strengths of the numerical characters ofsaid high strength cards.

5. A pack of cards for a card game comprising two or more groups, ingthe same numerical characters as the predominant characteristic upon theface of each card but otherwise differentiated each from every other,each of said groups having ten cards numbered sequentially from 1 to 10,and a plurality of additional cards, each of which is a multiple offive.

6. A pack of cards for a card game comprising two or more groups, allgroups hav ing the same numerical characters but otherwisedifferentiated each from every other, each ofsaid groups having tencards numall groups hav-- bered sequentially from 1 to 10, and alurality of additional cards, each of whic is a multiple of five, ineach group the 5 cards and the cards whose numbers are multiples thereofbeing contrasting with the remaining cards of that group otherwise thanby number.

7. A pack of cards for a card game comprising two or more groups, allgroups havmg the same numerical characters but otherwise differentiatedeach from ever other,

oups having ten car s numbered sequentially from 1 to 10, and aplurality of additional cards, each of which is a multiple of five, the5 cards and the cards whose numbers are multiples of five having theirnumbers of larger size than the numbers on the remaining cards.

8. A pack of cards for a card game comprising two or more groups, allgroups having the same numerical characters but otherwise differentiatedeach from every other, each of the groups having ten cards numberedsequentially from 1 to 10, and four additional cards numbered 15, 20, 50and'lOO, the 5 card and the cards whose numbers are multiples thereofbeing clearly distinguished from the remaining cards by having theirnumbers of larger size than the numbers on the remaining cards anornamental design thereabout.

.In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

PAUL L. MANSFIELD.

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